[prob. fr. techspeak manual + granularity] A notional measure of the
manual labor required for some task, particularly one of the sort
that automation is supposed to eliminate. "Composing English on paper
has much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in
the revising stage." Hackers tend to consider manularity a symptom of
primitive methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted with an apparent
requirement to do a computing task {by hand} will inevitably seize
the opportunity to build another tool (see {toolsmith}).
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